Amateur Night At The Chuckle Hut

Apparently, "Bobby" Jindal, former stalwart hunk of presidential timber, absolutely killed the other night at the Gridiron Club dinner, one of those ancient Beltway circle jerks where all the jerks sit in a circle and pretend they're in an Allen Drury novel while the waiter pokes them occasionally to see if they're all still alive. There is an ongoing attempt to keep this guy viable, even among journalists who are not prone to falling for his oddball mixture of snake-handling Catholicism and voodoo economics. He's just as nutty as all the rest of them. He's just more exotic.

"My answer is I have no plans to run. I have made that clear over and over again. In Iowa. In New Hampshire and in South Carolina."

Screams, I tells ya.

And he does topical humor, too.

Turning to freshman Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) who got in a jam in her campaign for once claiming to be part American Indian, Jindal, the son of immigrants from India gave her a shout out. "We've got a lot in common. From one Indian politician to another, I want to wish you all the best."

"Bobby" Jindal — The Lost Scott Brown Volunteer.

However, back home, "Bobby"'s campaign to make children stupid continues apace.